Receptions of the ancient Near East in popular culture and beyond /
This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture has consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars, archaeologists, philologists, historians and art historians, to reflect on how...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Atlanta :
Lockwood Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture has consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars, archaeologists, philologists, historians and art historians, to reflect on how objects, ideas and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been remembered, constructed, reimagined, mythologized or indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. The exploration of cultural memories has revealed how they inform the values, structures and daily life of societies over time. This is therefore not a collection of essays about the deep past but rather about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781948488242 1948488248 |